From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx187.postini.com [74.125.245.187]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15AD16B0072 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 03:53:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by yhr47 with SMTP id 47so4723371yhr.14 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:53:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120604133527.GA13650@lizard> References: <20120601122118.GA6128@lizard> <4FCC7592.9030403@kernel.org> <20120604113811.GA4291@lizard> <20120604121722.GA2768@barrios> <20120604133527.GA13650@lizard> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:53:41 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes... From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , Leonid Moiseichuk , John Stultz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: >> I don't mean VMEVENT_ATTR_LOWMEM_PAGES but following as, >> >> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_FREE_PAGES >> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_SWAP_PAGES >> VMEVENT_ATTR_NR_AVAIL_PAGES >> >> I'm not sure how it is useful. > > Yep, these raw values are mostly useless, and personally I don't use > these plain attributes. I use heuristics, i.e. "blended" attributes. > If we can come up with levels-based approach w/o using vmstat, well.. > OK then. That's what Nokia's lowmem notifier uses. We can probably drop them once we have something else they could use. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org